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tetrad

noun
/ˈtɛtɹæd/CA/ˈtetɹæd/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás), analysable as tetra- + -ad.

  1. derived from τετράς

Definitions

  1. A group of four things.

    • Religious movements and cults are often founded on a tetrad of elements: a prophet, a prophecy, a book, and a revelation.

  2. Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the…

    Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.

  3. A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by…

    A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.

    2. A tetravalent atom or radical.

    3. A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.

    4. A chord comprised of four notes

      A chord comprised of four notes; a tetrachord.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for tetrad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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